For projects in Al Khobar
Venue and restaurant acoustics in Al Khobar
Two different jobs that get quoted as one: keeping bass inside the building for the neighbours, and making the room comfortable enough that guests can talk. Solving one does nothing for the other. Mosques, conference halls and hotel ballrooms are tall hard volumes where intelligibility over a long reverberation tail is the whole brief.
- Containment
- Low frequency through structure to flats above and beside. Mass, decoupling and a sealed envelope.
- Table level comfort
- Absorption at the ceiling so guests stop raising their voices at each other.
- Entrance and service
- Doors, lobbies and extract paths, which is where most of the leakage actually is.
- Quote
- From a plan and a section, within 48 hours
01 / The material
What you are buying, and what it fixes in Al Khobar
Two different jobs that get quoted as one: keeping bass inside the building for the neighbours, and making the room comfortable enough that guests can talk. Solving one does nothing for the other.
Mosques, conference halls and hotel ballrooms are tall hard volumes where intelligibility over a long reverberation tail is the whole brief.
Work reaching us from Al Khobar is mostly control rooms and plant, corporate offices, compound housing, hotels, clinics, schools.
- Industrial noise is a different problem Compressors, generators and process plant are low frequency and structure-borne. Panels on a wall will not touch that. Mass, isolation and sealing will.
- Control rooms and operations centres People sit in these rooms for twelve hours listening to alarms and radios. Intelligibility matters more than a reverberation figure on a sheet.
- Port on the doorstep Dammam is close, so the road leg is short and the landed cost is predictable. That is the practical reason a factory in India can serve this market on schedule.
- Containment Low frequency through structure to flats above and beside. Mass, decoupling and a sealed envelope.
Full specification
Thickness, density, NRC by frequency, fire class, standard sizes and build-up detail for venue soundproofing are on the main product page. This page covers what that means for a project in Al Khobar.
Nightclub and venue soundproofing SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl
02 / The build-up
The stack, in the order it is installed
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Layer 1
SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl
A limp, high density sheet that adds mass to a partition, floor or duct without adding depth. In Al Khobar, cooling runs year round at high load, so chillers, AHUs and large duct runs are constant sources. Plant room lining and duct attenuation carry most of the result.
Wall, decoupled. Independent stud, membrane between the boards, cavity absorption, two boards. The membrane is one part of a system, never the whole answer.
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Layer 2
Wooden slat acoustic panels
Timber slats on an acoustic backing. In Al Khobar, mosques, conference halls and hotel ballrooms are tall hard volumes where intelligibility over a long reverberation tail is the whole brief.
Slats on felt backing. The standard. Absorption comes from the backing behind the gaps, so the slat gap ratio is an acoustic decision, not only a visual one.
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Layer 3
Acoustic carpet and rugs
A tile carpet with a dense polyester face on a felt backing. In Al Khobar, new school and university buildings are large, hard and highly glazed. Lecture theatres and sports halls are the spaces that fail first, and ceiling absorption is the practical fix.
Over a resilient underlay. Where impact noise to the floor below is the actual complaint, the underlay does that work, not the carpet.
If you are specifying for a Al Khobar project, we can give you a section, a BOQ and the honest limits of each layer. See how we support architects.
03 / In this market
What decides the build-up in Al Khobar
- Industrial noise is a different problem
Compressors, generators and process plant are low frequency and structure-borne. Panels on a wall will not touch that. Mass, isolation and sealing will.
- Control rooms and operations centres
People sit in these rooms for twelve hours listening to alarms and radios. Intelligibility matters more than a reverberation figure on a sheet.
- Port on the doorstep
Dammam is close, so the road leg is short and the landed cost is predictable. That is the practical reason a factory in India can serve this market on schedule.
- Heat, dust and sealed buildings
Buildings stay closed with heavy cooling running year round. Plant noise has nowhere to escape, and rooms get hard and live inside.
- Assembly and performance rooms
Mosques, conference halls and hotel ballrooms are tall hard volumes where intelligibility over a long reverberation tail is the whole brief.
04 / Room by room
Room by room, on a typical Al Khobar job
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Containment
Low frequency through structure to flats above and beside. Mass, decoupling and a sealed envelope. Compressors, generators and process plant are low frequency and structure-borne. Panels on a wall will not touch that. Mass, isolation and sealing will.
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 2100 kg per cubic metre
- Wooden slat acoustic panels, 13-3, 14-2, 28-4 and 59-5
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, High density polyester
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Table level comfort
Absorption at the ceiling so guests stop raising their voices at each other. People sit in these rooms for twelve hours listening to alarms and radios. Intelligibility matters more than a reverberation figure on a sheet.
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 30, 5.25 kg per sq m
- Wooden slat acoustic panels, 2440 x 192 mm and 2440 x 128 mm
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, Felt
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Entrance and service
Doors, lobbies and extract paths, which is where most of the leakage actually is. Dammam is close, so the road leg is short and the landed cost is predictable. That is the practical reason a factory in India can serve this market on schedule.
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 34, 8.4 kg per sq m
- Wooden slat acoustic panels, 14, 16 and 18 mm
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, 64 sq ft per pack
Interior designers tend to arrive with the look already decided. We will tell you which finish gets there without losing the acoustics. See how we work with interior designers.
04 / Conditions
The Al Khobar climate decides the material list
Al Khobar is hot and dry for most of the year, with dust and high daytime surface temperatures, and that narrows the material list before acoustics is discussed.
Dust is the enemy of open-cell products. PET felt does not shed, does not hold dust in the way fabric-wrapped glass wool does, and wipes down. Timber needs a stable indoor RH or it moves.
The failure we design against here is dust ingress and thermal movement in long runs.
Consultants get the raw data, not a sales sheet. That is the whole of our side of the job, and it is set out under working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Worth knowing
What we watch go wrong on jobs like this
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Panels on the wall as a neighbour noise solution
It sounds like a small detail until the room is finished and the complaint arrives.
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A lobby with both doors able to open at once
Soundproofing fails at the gaps, not the materials. One unsealed service penetration can undo a correctly built wall.
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Extract ducting that bypasses every wall you built
Noise with a source is fixed at the source. Treating the receiving room is the expensive way to get a small result.
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Treating it as a generic Al Khobar job
Compressors, generators and process plant are low frequency and structure-borne. Panels on a wall will not touch that. Mass, isolation and sealing will.
05 / Logistics
Supply into Al Khobar, start to site
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Dammam, then a short road run across the Eastern Province |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Dammam |
| Support | Drawings, build-ups, BOQ and material that arrives complete |
Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order.
Sea freight into Dammam, then a short road run to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Al Khobar projects
What makes venue and restaurant acoustics different in Al Khobar?
Mosques, conference halls and hotel ballrooms are tall hard volumes where intelligibility over a long reverberation tail is the whole brief. Compressors, generators and process plant are low frequency and structure-borne. Panels on a wall will not touch that. Mass, isolation and sealing will.
Where should the budget go first on a Al Khobar project?
Containment. Low frequency through structure to flats above and beside. Mass, decoupling and a sealed envelope. Table level comfort. Absorption at the ceiling so guests stop raising their voices at each other.
Do you have an office or installation team in Al Khobar?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Al Khobar. We give you drawings, build-ups, a BOQ and material that arrives complete, and we will tell you plainly when a job needs a local contractor we cannot be.
How does material get to a Al Khobar site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Dammam, then a short road run across the Eastern Province, dispatch: 4 to 7 working days. Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order.
What goes wrong most often on this kind of project?
Panels on the wall as a neighbour noise solution. A lobby with both doors able to open at once.
What do you need from us to quote?
A plan, a section through the critical partition or ceiling, and what the room is for. From that we can give a build-up and a BOQ rather than a price per square foot.
Next step
Send the drawings, get a straight answer
One drawing gets you a proper answer. Build-up, quantities, a delivered date, and an honest note on anything we think is the wrong approach.